Since these critters also happen to be invertebrates, they also don't suffer from bone loss in that same weightless environment. It was my understanding that muscle atrophy in astronauts was a secondary worry when compared to the severity of bone loss during extended missions without gravity.
I guess we need to engineer some "spacer" humans who have cartilage in place of bones? Spineless they might be, but I wouldn't wanna wrestle with one.
There are bugs in the Thunderbird UI and elsewhere that have persisted for a timespan of years when they've been reported to GetSatisfaction and Bugzilla. (E.g., 'new' message status is handled very poorly and inconsistently.) Really this announcement is a public admission of what some of us could already see was true: Mozilla hasn't given a damn about Thunderbird since it was split off from the browser. Really that split was more about taking out the trash than making it thrive on its own. They've thrown in the towel at the messaging match to Microsoft and focused on trying to win the browser bout. I wish they'd just get it over with and fully disown Thunderbird so that others who do give a damn can do something with it.
I wouldn't care myself, and would have reverted to Outlook some years ago, were it not for the existence of "portable" versions of Thunderbird and my current reliance on that portability. I keep it and some other portable apps on external storage to ensure that my messaging history is always consistently with me regardless which or whose computer I'm using. I wish I could do that with Outlook and ditch the bad behaviors of Thunderbird, but the only means to do it with Outlook are all much more kludgy than the portabilized Thunderbird.
Oh, I dunno... how about fixing bugs in the Thunderbird UI and elsewhere that have persisted for a timespan of years when they've been reported to GetSatisfaction and Bugzilla? (E.g., 'new' message status is handled very poorly and inconsistently.)
Really this announcement is a public admission of what some of us could already see was true: Mozilla hasn't given a damn about Thunderbird since it was split off from the browser. Really that split was more about taking out the trash than making it thrive on its own. They've thrown in the towel at the messaging match to Microsoft and focused on trying to win the browser bout. I wish they'd just get it over with and fully disown Thunderbird so that others who do give a damn can do something with it.
"Performance is supposed to be worth something," Pohl said.
He's quite right, and in the parlance of business law his university did indeed "perform" on its contract with him. Assuming a court of law would consider the this total price the university wants in exchange for his education and freshly minted degree to be fair, an equivalent exchange of value, and not usurious, then he "got his money's worth" and shut up and put up.
Second side:
On the other hand... it sounds like the university has a really stupid self-injurious contract for educational services, and perhaps they should be taught a lesson themselves in contract law this once? If I understand correctly, this university is charging fees based on length of enrollment rather than per course, or perhaps based purely on test results independent of coursework and attendance? Any business that structures its contracts that way is just begging to be legally exploited by some motivated entrepreneur. They got royally and fairly pwned.
That's funny... for me it's just more despicable now than it was way back when. I guess my despicableness threshold is lower than Eichenwald's and Ballmer's?
All the IP for the game is now in the hands of those greedy Frenchmen (Infogrames) who call themselves Atari but really aren't.
Although Spring is an open-source game engine specifically designed to be compatible with all the game resources from Total Annihilation, the TA source code has never been released nor substantially reverse-engineered (there's actually still work being done). There's a game hosted at SourceForge called Zero-K which was built with the Spring engine and lobby, and is practically a knockoff of TA.
Regarding TA:Kingdoms, its source code is also still hoarded. Its game engine was similar to TA's but was 'improved' somewhat. Spring is probably robust enough to duplicate and surpass it, so perhaps someone created a TC (total conversion) of TA:K for Spring. That's all you're likely to see in the way of open source TA:K (and that's not truly open source since you'd still legally have to own a license to the original game in order to have non-infringing access to the game resources to use with Spring).
(I was a routine visitor to Planet Annihilation, TA Universe, Estrella and other sites for many years, and I still drop in at TAU once in a great while.)
Just pay the original developer(s) enough money to let them retire early with the lifestyle of an A-list actor or pro sports boffin. Then they'll be happy to hand you the keys to the coded castle and bid you good luck.
Hey, I said the answer was easy... the implementation is a bit thorny.
He was also a non-Christian Deist at best, who perhaps accepted a Creator but considered Jesus merely a great philosopher. Reflecting those beliefs, late in life he penned what is now called the Jefferson Bible, his own personal rewrite of the New Testament which excluded what he termed the "mystical" elements but retained the ethical and philosophical teachings of Jesus which he admired. Allegations of atheism apparently dogged him throughout his political career, and he was quite keen to keep his true existential beliefs to himself; after he penned his Bible, he sent a copy to a trusted friend, who proved to be not so trustworthy and shared it with others in Britain, causing Jefferson much anxiety that it would be publicized widely in America.
It becomes quite a bit more difficult to swallow claims that the United States were founded as a Christian nation when pivotal Thomas Jefferson was anything but. Given his minority beliefs, it also becomes easier to understand why "tyranny of the majority" was such a concern. In large part we got the Representative form of democracy that we have because Jefferson himself feared what an unrestricted "democratic" majority would do to people like him. I for one am glad that Jefferson was a closeted outcast; had he been more "transparent" about his own beliefs we might very well have wound up enduring something much more like the theocracy that some Christians claim we should have had.
Arguing the validity of allegations of interaction and conspiracy and the subsequent joinder hardly seems necessary when the entire point of the whole process is to avoid legal proceedings entirely via extortion. The lawyers initiating these actions only need the courts to compel the discovery that allows the extortion to continue... since money can't be extorted from an unknown person. Why not focus on the extortion and illegal motives and ignore everything else?
Atari would have been 40 today... IF it still was something more than just a trademark. Infogrames in France is not Atari. It's a trademark holder. Remember "Is it live or is it Memorex"? Those mediocre DVD-Rs you bought last month aren't coming from the same company as those cassette tapes you used to record KROQ tunes.
The observation was easy, since I wasn't looking for a pleonasm... it leapt off the screen and attacked my eyes before I could look away. The hard work, as always for me, was organizing what needed to be said and how best to say it. Even though there's a novel's worth of material upstairs, I could never write a novel because it would take me decades to complete a first draft and I'd get distracted by some other shiny and wander off long before I finished. I don't think there's enough methylphenidate on the planet to get me through the process. So... yeah, I did have to work hard. This has taken me ten minutes.
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Ummm... I knew all of that when I posted.
I knew that.
I know that.
Why are economics books written by Austrians so special? Did people from Austria invent economics?
Since these critters also happen to be invertebrates, they also don't suffer from bone loss in that same weightless environment. It was my understanding that muscle atrophy in astronauts was a secondary worry when compared to the severity of bone loss during extended missions without gravity.
I guess we need to engineer some "spacer" humans who have cartilage in place of bones? Spineless they might be, but I wouldn't wanna wrestle with one.
And I'm a standard cat fanatic, you clod!
Hey, I'm a crazy cat MAN, you insensitive chauvinist clod!
There are bugs in the Thunderbird UI and elsewhere that have persisted for a timespan of years when they've been reported to GetSatisfaction and Bugzilla. (E.g., 'new' message status is handled very poorly and inconsistently.) Really this announcement is a public admission of what some of us could already see was true: Mozilla hasn't given a damn about Thunderbird since it was split off from the browser. Really that split was more about taking out the trash than making it thrive on its own. They've thrown in the towel at the messaging match to Microsoft and focused on trying to win the browser bout. I wish they'd just get it over with and fully disown Thunderbird so that others who do give a damn can do something with it.
I wouldn't care myself, and would have reverted to Outlook some years ago, were it not for the existence of "portable" versions of Thunderbird and my current reliance on that portability. I keep it and some other portable apps on external storage to ensure that my messaging history is always consistently with me regardless which or whose computer I'm using. I wish I could do that with Outlook and ditch the bad behaviors of Thunderbird, but the only means to do it with Outlook are all much more kludgy than the portabilized Thunderbird.
What more is there for email?
Oh, I dunno... how about fixing bugs in the Thunderbird UI and elsewhere that have persisted for a timespan of years when they've been reported to GetSatisfaction and Bugzilla? (E.g., 'new' message status is handled very poorly and inconsistently.)
Really this announcement is a public admission of what some of us could already see was true: Mozilla hasn't given a damn about Thunderbird since it was split off from the browser. Really that split was more about taking out the trash than making it thrive on its own. They've thrown in the towel at the messaging match to Microsoft and focused on trying to win the browser bout. I wish they'd just get it over with and fully disown Thunderbird so that others who do give a damn can do something with it.
First side of the coin:
"Performance is supposed to be worth something," Pohl said.
He's quite right, and in the parlance of business law his university did indeed "perform" on its contract with him. Assuming a court of law would consider the this total price the university wants in exchange for his education and freshly minted degree to be fair, an equivalent exchange of value, and not usurious, then he "got his money's worth" and shut up and put up.
Second side:
On the other hand... it sounds like the university has a really stupid self-injurious contract for educational services, and perhaps they should be taught a lesson themselves in contract law this once? If I understand correctly, this university is charging fees based on length of enrollment rather than per course, or perhaps based purely on test results independent of coursework and attendance? Any business that structures its contracts that way is just begging to be legally exploited by some motivated entrepreneur. They got royally and fairly pwned.
Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised"
That's funny... for me it's just more despicable now than it was way back when. I guess my despicableness threshold is lower than Eichenwald's and Ballmer's?
All the IP for the game is now in the hands of those greedy Frenchmen (Infogrames) who call themselves Atari but really aren't.
Although Spring is an open-source game engine specifically designed to be compatible with all the game resources from Total Annihilation, the TA source code has never been released nor substantially reverse-engineered (there's actually still work being done). There's a game hosted at SourceForge called Zero-K which was built with the Spring engine and lobby, and is practically a knockoff of TA.
Regarding TA:Kingdoms, its source code is also still hoarded. Its game engine was similar to TA's but was 'improved' somewhat. Spring is probably robust enough to duplicate and surpass it, so perhaps someone created a TC (total conversion) of TA:K for Spring. That's all you're likely to see in the way of open source TA:K (and that's not truly open source since you'd still legally have to own a license to the original game in order to have non-infringing access to the game resources to use with Spring).
(I was a routine visitor to Planet Annihilation, TA Universe, Estrella and other sites for many years, and I still drop in at TAU once in a great while.)
Just pay the original developer(s) enough money to let them retire early with the lifestyle of an A-list actor or pro sports boffin. Then they'll be happy to hand you the keys to the coded castle and bid you good luck.
Hey, I said the answer was easy... the implementation is a bit thorny.
He was also a non-Christian Deist at best, who perhaps accepted a Creator but considered Jesus merely a great philosopher. Reflecting those beliefs, late in life he penned what is now called the Jefferson Bible, his own personal rewrite of the New Testament which excluded what he termed the "mystical" elements but retained the ethical and philosophical teachings of Jesus which he admired. Allegations of atheism apparently dogged him throughout his political career, and he was quite keen to keep his true existential beliefs to himself; after he penned his Bible, he sent a copy to a trusted friend, who proved to be not so trustworthy and shared it with others in Britain, causing Jefferson much anxiety that it would be publicized widely in America.
It becomes quite a bit more difficult to swallow claims that the United States were founded as a Christian nation when pivotal Thomas Jefferson was anything but. Given his minority beliefs, it also becomes easier to understand why "tyranny of the majority" was such a concern. In large part we got the Representative form of democracy that we have because Jefferson himself feared what an unrestricted "democratic" majority would do to people like him. I for one am glad that Jefferson was a closeted outcast; had he been more "transparent" about his own beliefs we might very well have wound up enduring something much more like the theocracy that some Christians claim we should have had.
Arguing the validity of allegations of interaction and conspiracy and the subsequent joinder hardly seems necessary when the entire point of the whole process is to avoid legal proceedings entirely via extortion. The lawyers initiating these actions only need the courts to compel the discovery that allows the extortion to continue... since money can't be extorted from an unknown person. Why not focus on the extortion and illegal motives and ignore everything else?
Take out the shag carpet and mirrors.
[Martin Short voice:] Your funny perversion is more lyrical, I must say!
Makes one wonder if Slashdot is now entirely staffed by part-time college-dropout interns who just ghost-edit, eh?
Atari would have been 40 today... IF it still was something more than just a trademark. Infogrames in France is not Atari. It's a trademark holder. Remember "Is it live or is it Memorex"? Those mediocre DVD-Rs you bought last month aren't coming from the same company as those cassette tapes you used to record KROQ tunes.
Yes, yes, he does. She doesn't return calls, though... he just takes messages and puts 'em in the round file.
You can try to call my mom, but you'll get the caretaker in the cemetery, who is not my mom.
FTFY.
It's all about the quota and quantity, baby.
You can try to call my mom, but you'll get the caretaker in the cemetery.
Microsoft Trying To Woo Businesses To Windows 8
Holy shit! Who could have guessed this would happen? Quick, somebody call the EFF, ACLU, and EU before it's too late!
The observation was easy, since I wasn't looking for a pleonasm... it leapt off the screen and attacked my eyes before I could look away. The hard work, as always for me, was organizing what needed to be said and how best to say it. Even though there's a novel's worth of material upstairs, I could never write a novel because it would take me decades to complete a first draft and I'd get distracted by some other shiny and wander off long before I finished. I don't think there's enough methylphenidate on the planet to get me through the process. So... yeah, I did have to work hard. This has taken me ten minutes.